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Not Again! | Continuing gaming's worst trend, you'll be able to play Avowed five days early as long as you're happy to fork over $90
Can we put this one to bed, please?
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It Needs Consoling | "We’re not going to grow the market with $1,000 consoles", Xbox boss Phil Spencer says, likely leaving the PS5 Pro pretty PSSRd off
Yep, just a quippy little line about expensive hardware, nothing to see here.
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Switching Things Up | Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and... An Xbox handheld? Microsoft says it's happening, even if it is 'years away'
You can wait a little while, right?
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Keep It Platonic | No, Avowed doesn't have any romance options, but the game's director has some pretty good reasons behind the decision
"We felt that we could best tell our companions' stories and our players' relationships with them without the romance option."
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Now That's Variety | November's first batch of Xbox Game Pass titles includes tactical metallic slugs, simulated goats, turnips robbing banks, and a whole lot of planes
Plenty of bang for your buck here.
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Conkers Crossover | Remember weird N64 classic Conker's Bad Fur Day? Well, here's Doja Cat dressed up as the sunflower from it for Halloween, because video games
Here's one for both the old people and the young people, for some reason.
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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2024
Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!
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Classic Voice | Todd Howard initially rejected the idea of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones in The Great Circle
The prolific voice actor almost automatically lost out on the iconic role.
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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2024
Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.
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Azura's Daily Star | Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil is gearing up to let you decide who rules the Imperial City long after Oblivion, and it’ll feature something any world definitely needs: unhinged tabloid journalism
Yep, you can't escape dickheads like us writing about things you do in sometimes tonally interesting ways, even in Tamriel.
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Open Roads | The best open-world games to play in 2024
It feels good to take the path less travelled, sometimes.
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Tell Me A Good One | The best story games to play in 2024
If you're looking for a game with a story that will captivate you, check some of these out.
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Xmas | Halo Master Chief ornament tops the Christmas charts at Amazon—I've already ordered 10
"Alexa, play Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix"
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Headin' On Up | Who is new the new head of Xbox Game Studios, Craig Duncan?
And what's so rare about him anyway?
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New Me | Goodbye 343 Industries, hello Halo Studios, multiple new games, and a switch to Unreal Engine 5
Big changes are coming for Master Chief.
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First The Worst | It makes me uncomfortable to look at, but Halo Infinite is adding in a third person mode
A fresh perspective.
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Wingin' It | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 may lead with new mission modes, but its astonishing scope is broad enough to fly an A380 through - Hands-On
This is certainly the biggest-ever Flight Simulator release in terms of content - and it may also be in terms of audience.
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Rise Up, Dictators | Xbox Game Pass' second wave of titles for September are a good time for egomaniacs who like sitting about for ages and building a thing, less good for Xbox players
This is the first bunch of titles to hit Game Pass since Microsoft actually did that big bit of tiers/pricing rejigging.
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Driving Me Wild | Xbox Game Pass' additions for September are basically Christmas for lovably boring prats who revel in the thrills of the simulated commute
It's me, I'm the prat who likes this kind of thing. Now stop shouting at me.
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Freestyling | Monster Jam Showdown feels a bit like what would happen if Forza Horizon had a baby with my childhood, and that’s cool
Maybe this isn’t what the ideal Monster Jam game would look like, but it’s still a pretty good racing thing.
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Game Passwords | Xbox Game Pass on Geforce Now is getting an upgrade that will change your life
OK, maybe that's a bit much, but it'll certainly make playing Game Pass games on Geforce Now a lot less hassle.
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He's Back | Peter Molyneux's not-Fable, not-Black & White, not-Dungeon Keeper, Masters of Albion, looks to bear some similarities to his blockchain game, Legacy
From what what's been shown so far, Albion does seem to have gotten rid of all the web3 nonsense.
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Outta This World | Fallout co-creator Tim Cain shows off the remarkable The Outer Worlds demo that got the publisher thumbs up only a year into development
There are a few more bald blokes than we got in the final game, but you can definitely see the vision in what became the Roseway level.
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Let It Breathe | UPDATE: Avowed is reportedly being delayed into 2025, but chill out - it's apparently just to give it a bit of Game Pass "breathing room"
You've got more time to practise writing 'I will not say Avowed and Skyrim in the same sentence' on that blackboard.
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What's Next? | Double Fine says one last goodbye to Psychonauts 2 with a surprise final episode of the game's documentary
It's been quite the journey.
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Awowed | “It lets us really lean into the things that we excel at” - Avowed’s developers on choice, consequence, Game Pass, and those early Skyrim comparisons
We sit down and speak to Obsidian devs about the most pressing topics, as Avowed nears its release.
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Race Against Time | Forza Horizon 4 is getting delisted this year, but you've got time to complete its longest race in a crap car over 21,000 times before it goes
Fire up your goofy little Peel Trident, it's time to put the pedal to the metal!
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Do You Booth-er? | Xbox will be whipping out its "biggest booth yet" at Gamescom 2024, while PlayStation and Nintendo give the show a miss
The green brand's even put out a list of games you can expect to see there.
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Box It Up To Go | The Xbox handheld dream lives - Phil Spencer adds more fuel to the fire
OK, maybe not everyone's dream, but some of you definitely want one.
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Yes, No, Maybe So | Oops! Obsidian might accidentally have shared Avowed's release date after all
Expect the upcoming RPG in November? Maybe?
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X MARKS THE SPOT | Xbox pulls off the best E3 showcase in years, it’s a pity that both brands died before it could happen
Rumours of Xbox’s demise have clearly been exaggerated
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About Time? | Avowed, Obsidian's own take on The Elder Scrolls, gets new gamplay trailer but no release date
Look at that action!
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Fly Away | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is taking off this November
Hopefully it won't be a bumpy landing.
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Groovy! | South of Midnight looks stunning and bizarre in first gameplay footage
The next project from Compulsive has shown itself, and we're here for it.
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Year Zero | Doom: The Dark Ages takes us back to the beginning, and it'll be in our hands next year
After a few leaks, Doom: The Dark Ages has been officially announced as the next game game in the shooter series.
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X-Rated | Watch Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase here
Another year, another round of World Premieres - probably.
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Halo Again | Looks like Xbox is making Halo: Combat Evolved again, but this time it might also come to PS5
A fresh remaster is reportedly in the works.
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Running Gag | Summer Game Fest is streaming at 4K 60fps this year, and everyone is making the same joke
Also, Sony looks like it's given up trying to convince people to play stuff at 8K resolution on the PS5.
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CATCH ME UP TO DATE | Hate waiting to play your Xbox games because of a new update? Don't worry, you'll soon be able to pre-download them
The feature has been available on PlayStation for a while now.
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NEWS IN BRIEF | Activision announces Elsewhere Entertainment, a Warsaw-based studio creating a brand new narrative-based triple-A IP
A new studio, eh?
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LOVE HURTS | It’s all very sad, isn’t it - where does the games industry go from here?
It's hard to love an industry that is seemingly always in chaos.
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BLUE VS GREEN | PlayStation 5 outsold Xbox Series X/S nearly 5-to-1 the last quarter, according to estimates
Console sales may be on a bit of a downward trend as a whole, but the PS5 seemingly continues to outdo Xbox's offering.
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TONGUE TIED | As Xbox shutters studios, old documentary clips that highlight problems with how Microsoft handles its developers are resurfacing
Following a week with plenty of foot-in-mouth c-suite moments at Xbox, some older ones are returning to the fore.
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WHAT WAS THE POINT? | Is Call of Duty coming to Xbox Game Pass? Yes, no, maybe, who knows - but it’s clear no one believes what Xbox says any more
After years of building up Game Pass as a viable part of its business, and billions of dollars spent acquiring content for it, even Microsoft is seemingly struggling to justify Call of Duty on Game Pass.
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PERFECT MESS? | Perfect Dark report claims things are in a "very rough state" after years of set-backs and other development woes
Things seem to be a bit untidy.
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GAME PAST IT | Xbox must fully embrace third-party and Xbox Game Pass to find success – but is Microsoft struggling to see the bigger picture?
The games company Microsoft built is better positioned than ever to go big on both fronts, so why is it not going for it?
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NIPPON IT IN THE BUD | With the closure of Tango Gameworks, Xbox sends an accidental message: it is not a platform for fans of Japanese games
No matter what Xbox leadership says in its livestreams or in statements, one thing remains true: it's relationship with Japan never came first.
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MICROSOFT | Microsoft to shut down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and more due to a "reprioritization of titles and resources"
Those two studios and more to be shuttered in a shocking and sudden development.
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STORMIN' THE PS5 | Sea of Thieves Season 12 raises the Jolly Roger: Prepare for zipline adventures, loot, new weapons, pets, and a PS5 premiere
Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!